This time, it was the wife of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky who was nearly flagged for illegal contact in the latest odd twist of the disturbing story.

Dottie Sandusky, wife of a man who has been accused of multiple counts of sexual misconduct with young boys, took out some of her frustrations on unsuspecting reporters who were trying to do a report near the Sanduskys' driveway.

WPXI reporter Courtney Brennan and a photographer went to the Sandusky home Thursday, a day before his bail hearing, to report on complaints that Sandusky has been watching school children from his back porch. Currently under house arrest, the former coach's home is adjacent to a local park and near an elementary school.

In the middle of the interview, Brennan abruptly stopped talking and walked out of the camera shot. That's when Dottie Sandusky's SUV came speeding into frame and went roaring up her driveway.

Brennan told Pittsburgh's WKST-FM 96.1 that Sandusky's wife "revved her

Science agrees -- the Giants have reason to celebrate. (Getty Images)

The New York Giants beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl this past Sunday not just by being better between the lines but, according to Dr. John F. Murray, by being better between their ears.

The Mental Performance Index (MPI) was developed by Dr. Murray, a south Florida-based sports psychologist who has been called by the Washington Post the "Freud of Football." MPI shows how closely a football team comes to achieving perfection in a game across multiple domains. The system ranks a team on a scale of .000 to 1.000 -- .500 is roughly average and .600 is extraordinary. No Super Bowl-winning team has ever topped .600 in the MPI rating.

According to Murray, who authored The Mental Performance Index: Ranking the Best Teams in Super Bowl History, the Giants' MPI for the Super Bowl came out to  .522, compared to the Patriots, who managed a .500 ranking for the game.

"This game was played at a higher than average level for a Super Bowl game. Overall, the Giants clearly outperformed the Patriots in terms of total team performance, so we know that the better performing team in fact won the game," Dr. Murray said. "Justice was realized! Over 90 percent of the time, the higher-performing team will win a football game as reflected on the MPI total score, so the theory that performance wins games is indeed valid."

What MPI does is factor in overall consistency as part of its formula and very rarely does a team with a lower MPI lose the Super Bowl. The last time was in 2005 when the Pittsburgh Steelers had a lower MPI than the Seattle Seahawks, who lost the game.

Through statistical analysis, Dr. Murray has created a balance system that values plays based not only on their outcome but also their impact. In essence, MPI weighs in a comprehensive, balanced fashion each team play as it objectively looks at how the 11 players as a unit performs. It is the truest way to measure how in sync a team is not just physically but also mentally.

Adjustments are made based on the observed mental performance. More than raw yardage or basic statistics, captured within this number is the pressure and significance of the moment and the execution of the team in the moment. It requires an expert human being to evaluate the moment and the significance of the play in the scheme of all four quarters. Field position, clock time and score are all factors that must be weighed.

It is in the pressure packed moments that this game was won according to MPI. Given that the Giants won on their last drive of the game, this shouldn't necessarily be a surprise, but the disparity between the two teams in the clutch according to MPI is shocking.

Athletes get going at the TEST facility.

Up through the NFL draft, Shutdown Corner's Kristian Dyer will be training at TEST Sports Club in Martinsville, N.J., along with roughly 20 players. All of these athletes are prepping for the NFL combine, different pro days and of course, the NFL draft in April. A former college soccer player, Kristian was a playground legend at quarterback back in middle school but never played a down of organized football. He will be blogging about the life of training for the NFL draft and a career in the league as he lives it firsthand.

MARTINSVILLE, N.J. - The toughest part of the combine and NFL draft readiness isn't necessarily the daily weightlifting routine or getting ready for the Wonderlic Test. Instead, it might be trimming hundredths of a second off one's 40-yard time.

Through two weeks of living — and lifting — like a player getting ready for April's draft, I've only once been tested in the 40-yard dash, clocking in a less than impressive 5.95 seconds, easily the slowest number among the athletes training at TEST Sports Clubs. I can take some solace in the fact that I am eight years older than many of these athletes and not exactly coming off my senior season of football, so I can hardly be expected to be in peak shape. But when I see Jamahl Williams of Kean University blur by me during training, it is humbling to say the least.

And when every single offensive lineman in the group is nearly a second faster, well, I need to get my tail in gear and do it fast. Sorry about the pun.

NFL scouts place such importance on the 40 that it can make or break an athlete's draft status, meaning that the trainers at TEST spend several sessions a week just on speed training. This past week, Ato Boldon was brought up to central New Jersey (we say just Jersey) to work with the athletes.

Yes, the Ato Boldon who won a silver medal in the 100m at the Sydney Olympics, one of his four Olympic medals won in a long and storied career. Imagine the advantage these athletes have in learning at TEST how to sprint from a world champion and one of the fastest men of his generation? But taking football players and making them sprinters in time for the combine or a pro day is a tremendous challenge for Boldon.

Trying to keep up.

"A football player's natural instincts are almost the opposite of what sprinters learn. With a football player effort and teeth gritting, so to speak, is what works — it is part of the culture," Boldon said. "The best sprinters are relaxed as can be. Combine that with movements of arms that almost never happen on a football player and it's a lot to teach in seven weeks."

Within a 20-second span, the New England Patriots season was doomed to end with heartache and the New York Giants were on their way to planning a parade — and both plays had everything to do with the rotational analog of Isaac Newton's second law of motion. No, seriously.

Four minutes left in the game and up 17-15, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady threw a second-and-11 pass to wide receiver Wes Welker that was slightly behind the player. While in midair, Welker had to adjust and try to make the catch, but he was unable to come down with the ball. NBC's Cris Collinsworth said that Welker "makes that catch 100 times out of 100 - stunning to see him miss that one."

It wasn't a surprise to Dr. Eric Goff, Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of the Physics Department at Lynchburg College. He's also the author of Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports and blogged about the science behind Brady's last-second heave at the game's end.

"Though not perfect, Brady's pass found Welker between three Giants defenders. Welker was rotating clockwise in an attempt to make the catch. Newton's laws tell us that initiating rotation takes a torque, which is a force multiplied by a lever arm distance," Dr. Goff said.

And we were told there would be no math involved in watching the Super Bowl. Undeterred, Dr. Goff continues on.

We know from the hit Hootie & the Blowfish song "Only Wanna to be With You" that the Miami Dolphins make lead singer Darius Rucker cry. And several months ago a mother taped her son crying after a Jets loss. After the Super Bowl, we can now finally add Tom Brady to that list.

A stunned — and sobbing — New England Patriots fan was videotaped by whom we now presume to be her ex-boyfriend in the moments after her team's Super Bowl loss to the Giants. The fan, in her Tom Brady jersey, begins her sniffling tirade against the "stupid" Patriots in classic fashion as she realizes that the team "will never play together again."

The presumed boyfriend can only respond ever so cleverly with "I'm sorry baby." Then he continues to videotape.

Curtis Martin runs it up against his old team in 2002. (Getty Images)

Among the Curtis Martin's many accomplishments during his 11-year NFL career, dating singer Toni Braxton remains among the greatest feats on the running back's resume. But on Saturday evening, Martin was honored for what he did playing on the field and not just playing the field when he was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The running back, who finished with 14,101 rushing yards and 100 all-purpose touchdowns, spent three years with the New England Patriots and the remainder of his career in New York with the Jets.

[Related: Curtis Martin headlines 2012 NFL Hall of Fame class]

Flanking Martin will be fellow selectees Dermonti Dawson, Chris Doleman , Cortez Kennedy, Willie Roaf and senior selection Jack Butler, all of whom will take their place in Canton this August to be inducted for their outstanding careers. On the ballot last year but failing to get the necessary votes, Martin is fourth on the all-time rushing list and in 2004 became the oldest player to win an NFL rushing title. The year before he won the rushing title, Martin had just two rushing touchdowns and there was talk of him being over the hill and unable to carry the load as a featured running back.

His 1,697 yards on 371 carries in that season are still both Jets records and perhaps sealed the deal in terms of his Canton candidacy.

"I heard a lot of talk about me being washed up and old, whether or not there were so many miles on the tires and all of that. To be able to come out and feel the way I felt and have the year that I had that year -that was tremendous to me. To actually win a rushing title, if I could say that I had one individual goal as an athlete, as a running back, it was to win the rushing title," Martin said after learning of his induction.

"That meant a lot to me because I felt as though I could do that the following year. Unfortunately, I had that career-ending injury, but I would say the best I ever felt in my career was during the latter part of it."

It has yet to be determined if Giselle's prayers will provide some divine intervention for her husband Tom Brady on Sunday, but if Tecmo Bowl has anything to say about it, the New England Patriots quarterback will have a slow walk in his Uggs back to the team bus after the game.

Earlier this week, the Madden video game franchise announced that you don't even need to turn into this Sunday's Super Bowl since their simulation had the New York Giants beating the Patriots 27-24. That certainly frees up your evening to focus on the commercials or to watch the Nora Roberts movie marathon on Lifetime.

But Gridiron Heroes takes the predictions one step further and with far more nostalgia making their prognostications based on the classic Tecmo Bowl video game series of the 1980's. Modernizing the game with current players and stats, Gridiron Heroes ran its own simulation with the Giants beating the Patriots24-7 (no word on the pixilation quality of Bill Belichick in his hoodie).

The Giants romp was salsa-flavored, with wide receiver Victor Cruz leading the stat line with six catches for 159 yards and touchdowns. The Giants also had six sacks, essentially sticking the Patriots offense in neutral. The simulation, run by Gridiron Heroes founders and developers Matt Knobbe of TecmoBowl.org and Dave Murray of Pixel Rampage have Brady throwing for only 157 yards.

"What makes the Madden prediction better? Because they spent days trying to project Rob Gronkowski's ankle? We spent two hours on the simulation....total." Murray said. "We did it without spending millions of dollars to ensure that we wouldn't have any competition. All of that, and both of us still predicted the Giants. If we're talking accuracy, would you honestly trust either game enough to fly to Vegas and bet the house?"

In January, 1969, Namath had his own Super day in the sun. (Getty Images)

NFL Hall of Famer and New York Jets legend Joe Namath has been contributing to Shutdown Corner through the postseason to break down the key games, players and moments. Make sure to like the Official Joe Namath page on Facebook and visit the Broadway Joe site for plenty of other insight and gear from Namath, including video commentary from the legend.

Keeping an edge and guarding against overconfidence is a key that just isn't being talked about much this week. There has been plenty of Super Bowl talk surrounding the New York Giants and the New England Patriots for sure, with everyone wondering about the health of Rob Gronkowski and focusing on the Giants' pass rush. And for sure, the pundits are breaking down the personnel matchups, and who doesn't love that stuff, but what is happening away from the practice field is just as important in a game like this. This game will likely be won or lost days before the teams walk out for the national anthem.

If there is an edge involved, and I'm not talking about talent, I think it goes to the underdog depending on how the favorite approaches things during the two weeks leading up to the game. When I won Super Bowl III with the New York Jets, it was of course the Baltimore Colts who were confident — too confident, there's no doubt about it. This impacted everything they did.

After 45 of these big games, coaches have developed a different method of course. My coach in our game, Weeb Ewbank, told us exactly how we were going to approach things that week. I remember him saying, "Fellas, we're not going to change anything. You're going to conduct yourselves like you have throughout the season. We're going down there a little early and you need to be responsible, like you have all season." And that's what we did; it gave us a sense of familiarity and we didn't focus on the hype as much.

His words allowed us to embrace the moment but also continue with what we were used to throughout the season. That was a big help.

In this game, the New England Patriots are favorites, but their demeanor and the way they are approaching it, well, they're not acting like favorites and I am liking what I see from them in this regard. They're not acting like the game should be theirs. It is actually the Giants who are acting a bit cocky.

Now let me explain. The way that I'm looking at this game, the way the two teams are approaching it … well, the Patriots' demeanor is focused. They're looking at things on a daily basis and thinking about this game. The Giants seem to me to still be celebrating those wins over the Atlanta Falcons, the Green Bay Packers or the San Francisco 49ers. Those were great wins for sure, but they won't help you win this game.

The Giants are looking back rather than keeping their eyes on the trophy. This can be dangerous.

Namath has been no stranger to Super Bowls since. (Getty Images)